Jordan to grant marriage permission to a person who has completed 15 years

Jordan – The government issued new instructions for the marriage of minors and was published in the Official Gazette “Instructions to grant marriage permission to a person who completed the fifteenth year and did not complete 18 no. (1) Of 2017 issued under Article 10 (b) of the Personal Status Law No. (36) for the year 2010,” These instructions shall be effective from 1/8/2017, and the instructions to grant marriage permission to persons under the age of 18 for the year 2011 shall be canceled. While SIGI stresses its opposition to the marriage of minors and its continuing demand to amend the Personal Status Law and limit the cases of minor of marriage to those who completed 16 years of age and to identify them accurately, SIGI hopes that until this is achieved, the new regulations will limit the number of cases of child marriage (early marriages), which are more detailed than the previous instructions, although there are a number of observations that we will cite later. Article 3 of the regulations states that the judge may authorize the marriage of a person who has completed the age of 15 years and has not completed 18 years of age if marriage is a necessity required by the interest in accordance with the provisions of these instructions. While the previous provisions and in its first article states: The judge may authorize the marriage of those who completed fifteen …